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32 The Star Thursday April 20 2023 8 ways to stay well this winter Our local health services are preparing for a busy winter with flu, COVID-19 and other illnesses. Check out some ideas for staying warm and well this winter and help lighten the load. 1 2 3 4 Vaccines & immunisations Prescriptions & medication Stay home when you're unwell Check in with Healthline Check that you and your whānau are up-to-date with immunisations and consider getting the flu and COVID-19 vaccines. Get prescription and medicine refills early, especially if you need an appointment with your family doctor. Protect your community by staying home when you're unwell. If you need to go out, make sure you wear a mask. If you aren't sure whether to see your GP, visit an urgent care clinic, stay home, or call Healthline 0800 611 116 for advice. 5 6 7 8 If it can wait, don't come out late Heating and staying warm Connect with friends Your Best Care website Wait times at 24 Hour Surgery can be long in the evening. If you can wait until tomorrow, don't visit at night. For help heating your home check WINZ, your local Council or the Citizens Advice Bureau for information on grants and support. Stay connected with friends and whānau this winter. Have a coffee together, or explore the outdoors on a beautiful winter morning. Visit yourbestcare.co.nz for all the options available if you or your whānau need healthcare this winter. warm & well www.pegasus.health.nz
MAJOR CHANGES loom for recommended the city council to Torlesse St, Braemar Place as well as making provisions daily traffic flow is a the lower period in February and March. looks like a rural road, bu the daily number of vehicles using For information and advice: start in summer, and is estimated to be completed by mid 2025. volume range. However, we The city council will consider THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2023 connecting you with your neighbourhood Locals Locals Supporting Thursday, April 20, 2023 Christchurch’s best read and largest circulating newspaper Park to be revamped, wetland added PLANS TO redevelop Avon Park have been given the green light by the Waitai Coastal-Burwood- Linwood Community Board. The board approved plans to revamp the existing facilities on the upper terrace of Avon Park and transform the lower terrace into a naturalised wetland. City council head of parks, Andrew Rutledge said the park Andrew Rutledge and surrounding pockets of regeneration area will incorporate the City to Sea Pathway, improve local ecology and upgrade the current recreational facilities. www.starnews.co.nz “Once completed, the lower terrace of Avon Park will be transformed to an ecologically restored wetland, and improved play and recreational facilities installed on the higher ground. The City to Sea Pathway will run through the heart of the park,” he said. “We’re grateful to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Trust who are funding the upper terrace portion of this proposed work. The Christchurch Regeneration Acceleration Facility will fund the work on the lower terrace.” Rutledge said 112 groups and individuals made submissions on the park redevelopment during a four-week consultation PHOTO: NEWSLINE “We’re pleased with the response we received for a consultation of a local park, with almost 70 per cent of submitters supporting a comprehensive redevelopment of the park and the surrounding pockets of regeneration area.” Construction is expected to Road changes in Wainoni get go-ahead Avonside Dr and surrounding streets in Wainoni. The Waitai Coastal- Burwood-Linwood Community Board has and Kerrs Reach into a parks’ access road. As part of the recommendation, trafficcalming measures will be made closure of Avonside Drive will improve the safety of recreational users in the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor, end of the range, the average vehicle speeds are high. This is mostly due to the fac the road roads, bu they will remain within the average traffic instructs staff to begin the formal road-stopping process and Kerrs Rd north of Wainoni Rd, and traffic counters to ecologically restore that area in the future, said city high speeds are concerning and pose a safety risk to other will install traffic counters to monitor traffic movements to for Avonside Drive between Kerrs Rd and Wainoni Rd, and change the section of road between 144 Kerrs Rd installed on Torlesse S to measure if the changes result in significan traffic increases on the local road. The stopping and eventual council head of parks, Andrew Rutledge. “Staff traffic reports that were completed in 2021 showed that while Avonside Drive users of the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor,” he said. “Our modelling shows closing this section of Avonside Dr would slightly increase the ensure this is the case.” Almost 65 per cent of the 111 groups and individuals who made submissions supported the road stopping. the surrounding minor arterial the road-stopping proposal in the coming months. Hon Poto WILLIAMS Incorporating bEst motorbuys MP for Christchurch East www.drivesouth.co.nz Check out the NEW Drivesouth motoring section E poto.williams.mp@parliament.govt.nz Electorate office: Level 1, Eastgate Shopping Centre. P 03 382 0288 IT’S Now inside your local community paper Authorised by Poto Williams, Parliament Buildings, We lington APRIL FOOLS’ MONTH Real deals. No joke. 2x Airpoints Dollars offer valid 5 April – 2 May 2023. Terms, conditions and exclusions apply. Visit smithscity.co.nz/airpoints for detail.
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